A state senator has come up with a plan for Ohio to secure a share of the $330 billion in investment automakers have pledged toward production of electric vehicles, commonly referred to as EVs, by 2025. Sen. Michael Rulli, a Salem Republican, has proposed a bill that would not only authorize incentives for the manufacture [...]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York looks poised to become the next place to give a huge subsidy to a professional sports arena, despite questions about whether the civic pride of having a team justifies giving so much public money to a private business. Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed a deal Monday that would give the [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Rick Scott likes to think of himself as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. Barely halfway through his first Senate term, the Florida Republican is already leaning into a fight against his own party's leadership as he navigates a delicate alliance with former President Donald Trump and pushes a [...]
The two Democrats trying to unseat first-term Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine took turns Tuesday criticizing the governor and his party for overseeing years of corruption and decline across the state. Meeting in their first primary debate, ex-Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley and former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley blamed DeWine for enabling the $60 million statehouse [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s economy ended 2021 by expanding at a healthy 6.9 percent annual pace from October through December, the government reported Wednesday, a slight downgrade from its previous estimates. For all of 2021, the nation's gross domestic product — its total output of goods and services — jumped by 5.7 percent, the [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would pay farmers not to plant thousands of acres of land as part of a $2.9 billion plan announced Tuesday aimed at letting more water flow through the state's major rivers and streams to help restore the unique habitat in one of North America's largest estuaries. The agreement, signed Tuesday [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — What's immune to high inflation? So far, the profits at big American companies. Businesses are facing higher gasoline and heating bills, just like consumers, in addition to higher expenses for labor and raw materials, but unlike many middle- and lower-income Americans, they've been making more than enough extra income to cover [...]